A recent report released by @humanrightswatch claims a gross misuse across the US of #antipsychotic drugs to control behavior of #nursinghome residents with #dementia . “People with dementia are often sedated to make life easier for overworked nursing home staff, and the government does little to protect vulnerable residents from such abuse,” said Hannah Flamm, a New York University School of Law fellow at #HRW . “All too often, staff justify using antipsychotic drugs on people with dementia because they interpret urgent expressions of pain or distress as disruptive behavior that needs to be suppressed.” #nursinghomeabuse#humanrightswatch#viiphoto

Photo by @edkashi /@viiphoto. The amazing vegetation of the Colca Canyon, Peru. This year, Peru has seen the most devastating downpours in decades as climate change is expected to make these kinds of floods more frequent. According to @reuters , the precipitation has been fueled by unusually warm temperatures in the Pacific. This is a rapid change in climate compared to the wildfires that tore across Peru’s drought-stricken regions just last year. #everydayclimatechange#ECC#actonclimate#climatechangeisreal#Peru#travel

Photo by @edkashi /@viiphoto. Workers subcontracted by Shell Oil Company clean up an oil spill of over 20,000 barrels of crude oil from an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company well in Oloibiri, Niger Delta in 2004. This November, the @nytimes reported that Royal Dutch Shell pledged to increase its investment in renewable fuels and to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2050. Ben van Beurden, Shell’s chief executive said that from 2018 to 2020, Shell’s new-energies division will spend about $2 billion annually on wind, solar and hydrogen power and on electric-car charging stations. He added that Shell supports the Paris accord and will do so “by reducing the net carbon footprint of the full range of Shell emissions, from our operations and from the consumption from our products.” #everydayclimatechange#ECC#actonclimate#climatechangeisreal#climatechange